17/09/2025
🍗 The use of high value food as a primary reinforcer is really important in shaping, training and guiding your dog into offering better choices, decisions and behaviours!
👉🏻 The two golden rules:
1️⃣ Reward only when your dog is calm and in the right state of mind.
2️⃣ Reward only when they respond the first time-not after repeating, coaxing, or luring.
✅ Example: If your dog sits calmly on the first ask-reward!
❌ If they sit hyper, over-aroused, or only after multiple commands-do not reward.
Why? Because you don’t want to reinforce the wrong mindset or selective listening…
🦮 When training obedience, recall, or engagement-food is powerful, but it must be paired with calm focus and first-time responses.
🐾That’s how you build a stable, balanced, well-mannered dog.
🦮✔At Extremus, we promise that your relationship with your dog will be on a whole new level if you can help guide them into becoming a stable, balanced and well mannered member of society 🙂
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